Select Virtual Hardware and click the Video card triangle to view the options.

3

Select the display settings type from the Settings drop-down menu and configure the available settings.

Option

Description

Auto-detect video settings

Applies common video settings to the guest operating system.

Specify custom settings

Lets you select the number of displays and the total video memory.

4

Select the number of displays from the drop-down menu.

The vSphere Web Client supports setting a number of displays and extending the screen across them. True multimonitor support is not available with the vSphere Client.

5

Enter the video memory required for the displays.

6

(Optional) Click Video Memory Calculator to calculate the required video memory based on the maximum number of displays, resolution, and color depth that the guest operating system must support, and click OK.

7

(Optional) Click Enable 3D support.

This check box is active only for guest operating systems on which VMware supports 3D.

8

Click OK.

Sufficient memory allocation is set for this virtual machine's video display.